Units Support

Global flags that identify resource control types are defined for all
resource controls. The flags are used by the system to communicate basic type
information to applications such as the prctl command.
Applications use the information to determine the following:

The unit strings that are appropriate for each resource control

The correct scale to use when interpreting scaled values

The following global flags are available:

Global Flag

Resource Control Type String

Modifier

Scale

RCTL_GLOBAL_BYTES

bytes

B

1

KB

210

MB

220

GB

230

TB

240

PB

250

EB

260

RCTL_GLOBAL_SECONDS

seconds

s

1

Ks

103

Ms

106

Gs

109

Ts

1012

Ps

1015

Es

1018

RCTL_GLOBAL_COUNT

count

none

1

K

103

M

106

G

109

T

1012

P

1015

E

1018

Scaled values can be used with resource controls. The following example
shows a scaled threshold value:

task.max-lwps=(priv,1K,deny)

Note –

Unit modifiers are accepted by the prctl, projadd, and projmod commands. You cannot use
unit modifiers in the project database itself.